The day got off to a good start as we won the football match against the orphans and therefore going 1-0 up in the overall competition! Our celebration would however end up being very short as we got our asses handed to us in both volleyball and cricket, the two most popular sports in India! So after a very intense but relaxingly fun day we suffered defeat with the score finally settling down at 2-1 to the orphans in all competitions; and in the spirit of fun competition they ended up coming back with us to the camp for some chai before heading back to the orphanage!Though the day was about having fun and just enjoying the moment, it also had me pondering away on other things, such as the fact that these kids, that have lost their whole families can still have their feet on the ground and look so stable and carefree! I mean most of the kids have been abandoned by there parents before they could remember and others had been left by their parents because they couldnt affored to keep them, while others lost their parants through fatal accidents or other events! One of them lost both his parents in a car accident when he was only in first grade! And it just makes you really happy to see how they have been able to find a new home within this orphanage and at the same time created their own family of sisters and brothers that are in the same situation! It is incouraging to see that people that have lost almost everything after having had barely anything have found life within this place and have still been able to keep their goals of getting an education and making something out of themselves! I guess what they say must be true, "what doesnt kill you only makes you stronger"!
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